
The Diesel Broadens Its Field
"Packaged Power" for Many Uses . . . A Complete Power Plant in One Unit . . . How Will Increased Fuel Demand Affect the Market Price?
"Packaged Power" for Many Uses . . . A Complete Power Plant in One Unit . . . How Will Increased Fuel Demand Affect the Market Price?
A 50-Fold Increase in Airplane Engine Power Within 34 Years, Basic Advances, Skill II Design and Research, End Not Yet in Sight
Flight in the Stratosphere Offers Many Advantages, Experimental Flights being Carried Out Systematically, Huge New Planes Designed...
Past, Present, Future, Air Mail Reaches All Five Continents, World-Wide Development, Catapults May Become Important
Efficiency Increases With Size . . . 55-Ton Flying Boats Designed . . . 80-Ton Next . . . Promenade Deck in Wings . . . Daily Service to Europe
One of the Last Areas to be Conquered By Commercial Air Transport . . . Technical Advances Have Outrun Political and Industrial Plans
Record Flights Point the Way to Scheduled Operation, Prove Correctness of Designs, Test Equipment, Provide an Index of Performance
Possibilities of Rotating Wing Aircraft, Vertical Rising, High-Speed, Roof-Top Landing
More Improved Weather Service Needed, New Radio Aids Important, Weeding Out of Incompetent Pilots Held to be a Prime Necessity
Approaching the Stratosphere . . . For Economy and Regularity of Operation . . . More Speed With Less Power . . . Avoiding the Bumps
Increased Use of Water-Going Aircraft May Presage a New Era in Aerial Transportation
American Air Transport Operators Have Built Up the Finest System of Its Kind in the World. "They Can Do Even Better if They Do Not Have to Play With Loaded Dice."
But Highly Refined Devices Act To Reduce the Gambling Element
High Speed and Safety Are Essential to Aerial Transportation: How Both Ends Are Being Gained
Basically Sound, the Aircraft Industry Has Suffered Severely From Growing Pains, But Is Now Becoming Stable
Plans for the Future, and Present Successful Tests, Portend a New Era in Heavier-than-Air Flying
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